Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kapuskasing, burns 500 tons of coal daily. With coal mines within sound of their buzz saws, Abitibi pulpmakers saw a chance to make newsprint still more cheaply for U. S. newspapers. Lignite, or "wood-coal," is geologically half way between turflike peat and smudgy bituminous coal. It is hard, looks like dirty brown slate, burns without smoke, is clean to handle. Mined in the U. S. in North and South Dakota and Texas, it is useful in domestic furnaces, or as pulverized fuel in manufacturing plants...
Doukhobor protests have been frequent in the Northwest this summer. Last week 103 "Dukes" and "Duchesses" had to be sentenced to six months at hard penal labor for parading at Nelson, B. C. At Canora, Sask., 60 more were incarcerated...
...Hard has been the lot of Britain's Conscientious Objectors for the past eleven years. Sneeringly referred to as "Conchies" by robust Britons who had no objections to the War, they have been barred from civil service positions. "Conchies" already employed by the government have been denied promotion...
This is taken as an indication that Horween and his assistants consider the condition of the players to be very good for the amount of work they have had. After another day of conditioning work today the first squad will probably get its first real hard playing when it faces the seconds in scrimmage Saturday morning. The practices have been remarkable for the subordination of the individual player to the general teamwork so far, and this will probably continue to be the case at least until Saturday's scrimmage...
After three days of conditioning workouts, the University football forces engaged in charging drill yesterday afternoon for the first time this season. Tackling the dummy, strenuous blocking, and charging the machine were all on Coach Horween's first really hard program of work...